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Fifteen percent of homicides in the United
States are filicides — children killed by a
parent. Nearly 10 percent of filicides occur
during a child's first week of life, according
to a new statistical analysis of 32 years of
homicide arrest data.

The FAA requires a pre-flight safety demonstration, and one
Southwest flight attendant
decided to jazz it up, leaving the passengers with a memorable and
humorous experience on their flight to Salt Lake City.

Gov. Gary Herbert continued to be optimistic
Wednesday that the federal government will sign
off soon on his proposed alternative to
Medicaid expansion following meetings in
Washington, D.C., earlier this week.

Emergency crews regularly prepare for a 7.0-
magnitude earthquake, and they have an idea of
how bad the Wasatch Front would look in the
event of one. One expert says post-quake Salt
Lake City could look much like images from
Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.

LDS Church leader Dallin H. Oaks will give the
keynote address at UVU's Spring Constitutional
Symposium on Religious Freedom. He's not
speaking as a church leader, he says, but as a
citizen concerned about the condition of
democracy in the U.S.